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sour grapes

NOUN
  1. disparagement of something that is unattainable

How To Use sour grapes In A Sentence

  • It sounds like sour grapes, but I came to realize I hated doing that work," Letts says, using the word "hated" eight more times in the next long sentence. Tracy Letts, a playwright at home in role as an actor
  • Okay, sure, maybe there's a hint of sour grapes here, but really, please, just stop it already.
  • His disapproving attitude toward cars is simply sour grapes; the fact is that he would like to have a car but can't afford to buy one.
  • Despair and/or 'Disgust' (i.e., rejective denial, or 'sour grapes' feeling towards what life might have been) represent the opposite disposition: feelings of wasted opportunities, regrets, wishing to be able to turn back the clock and have a second chance. Latest Articles
  • He and Palin can join up and go to the Coscos aroundthe nation with their "sour grapes" rehtoric. go away and let this administration run this country for now. Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war
  • Sour Grapes '' is nothing to look at -- it's sitcom drab -- but David has the requisite ruthlessness of the true  farceur,   willing to follow the tale's dark logic to its dottiest ends. Gambling Debts
  • Already one began to hear the nickname Suicide Langford; but that was either sour grapes or silly sensationalism.
  • This is not just sour grapes from a woman with no interest in footy.
  • His disapproving attitude toward cars is simply sour grapes; the fact is that he would like to have a car but can't afford to buy one.
  • It may sound like sour grapes but I assure you I feel no bitterness merely disappointed.
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